Jonathan D. Green is an award-winning composer of over 150
musical works and the author of eight reference books. He has
conducted a wide variety of collegiate and church choirs and
collegiate and regional orchestras. He is the president of
Susquehanna University.
David William Oertel is the Music Director and Conductor of the
Starlight Symphony Orchestra (TX) and the Austin Philharmonic. He
has also appeared as a guest conductor in venues from Houston, TX
to St. Petersburg, Russia and Zlin, Czech Republic. Oertel has
taught music in the public schools in Houston and has been on the
faculty of High Point University (NC) and North Carolina A&T
University. He has worked with youth orchestras, musical theatre
and opera pit orchestras, concert orchestras as well as wind
ensembles, jazz ensembles and silent film orchestras. Oertel holds
a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of North
Carolina at Greensboro as well as a Masters degree in Applied
Performance from the University of Houston. His undergraduate
degree is from the University of North Texas. His notable
conducting mentors include Robert Linder, David Daniels, Max
Rudolf, Kirk Trevor, Hans Graf, Niklaus Wyss, Adrian Gnam and Franz
Krager.
Highly Recommended: Bringing together the contents of six of
Green's previously published guides (dating from 1994 to 2014, many
reviewed in these pages), this volume provides descriptions of
works for chorus and orchestra from Bach onward. Intended to assist
conductors with selecting repertoire for performance, the entries
(which are arranged alphabetically by composer and then by work)
offer brief biographical information on the composers, followed by
detailed information on the works—including duration, sources of
texts, performing forces required, editions, recommended recordings
and further readings, and notes on performance issues. Based on
Green's own score study, the last are the real value of the guide.
Green describes technical issues (for both singers and
instrumentalists) that will need to be addressed in rehearsal, and
he provides an assessment of the overall difficulty level of the
piece.
*Choice Reviews*
At last, Jonathan Green's six invaluable books on works for chorus
and orchestra are gathered together in a new omnibus edition!
Green's careful research and perceptive insights into
choral-orchestral works from Monteverdi to Penderecki are now in a
single volume that earns a place on every conductor's shelf.
*David W. Daniels, author of Daniels' Orchestral Music*
Encyclopedic in scope, this breathtaking achievement is an
essential resource for conductors. It not only lists important
works but also presents commentary which will help conductors
decide programming.
*Harold Rosenbaum, founder, The New York Virtuoso Singers*
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